News Questions

Another set of questions culled from this week’s papers : -

Who or what are : -

Ryan Cleary

Clarence Clemons

James “Whitey” Bulger

HMS Protector

Terenia Taras

The Carlyle Group

Feliciano Lopez

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko

George Davies

Peter Flanagan

Happy Feet

Hu Jia

Bill Lacey

Mark Rowley

Mark Serwotka

Art Uncut

Last week it was announced that which vocalist will sing with the re-formed Faces ?

Which actor was given a posthumous star on the Hollywood walk of fame ?

Which british location came 6th on the list of National Geographic’s top 10 must see destinations for 2011 ?

Artist Ai Weiwei was freed after how many days imprisonment ?

A first edition of a book by Charles Darwin was returned to a library in Sydney after how many years ?

Which NATO country called for an end to the bombing of Libya ?

Who has threatened to roll naked down Murray Mount/Henman Hill if Andy Murray wins the Wimbledon Men’s Singles ?

What did the British Library unveil plans to do last week ?

Whose show did Aung San Su Kyo last week say was once her favourite on the world service ?

What is golfer Rory Mcilroy’s home town ?

Which Dragon’s Den star has faced allegations involving mismanagement of government funds ?

Barack Obama has pledged to pull how many troops out of Afghanistan ?

Footballer Ashley Young is being transferred from where to where ?

Which IT bank was unable to enable customers to access their accounts for periods last week ?

What is the name of Charles Dickens’ former holiday home, which went up for sale ?

Last week a sensational story claimed that a crash diet can cure type 2 diabetes in a week ( I’m type 2 myself, and I don’t believe this for one minute ) How many calories a day did it claim that you needed to eat ?

Which 83 year old actor died last week ?

Which Ice Hockey team won the Stanley Cup ?

How much have Chelsea to pay Porto for compensation for signing Villas Boas as their new manager ?

Which retailer went into administration last week ?

Who was sent back to jail in the US over corruption charges again last week ?

A project to build a controversial road in Africa was scrapped last week. Where exactly was it to have been sited ?

The first ever script of which soap opera is to be auctioned ?

Last week backbench conservative MPs defeated the government on which issue ?

Customers’ details were stolen when hackers raided which hotel group last week ?

Which American singer has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ?

Daniel Craig married which 41 year old actress ?

Who is the PM of China, visiting the UK ?

Which car company will be making the new pope mobile ?

What is the name of Levi Bellfield’s daughter, who wrote to the Dowler family ?

Some MPs are refusing to contribute to a specific present from MPs for the Queen’s diamond jubilee in 2012. What specifically is this present ?

There was speculation this week that which Australian sportsman may have had a facelift ?

What was the name of the judge who has faced some criticism over his handling of the Levi Bellfield trial ?